Hello, Bernd,
I got Beta9 on floppies to put on laptops and 486 desktops around here that have no CD drives, and using the same three floppies to install/update on machines with CD drives and pre-existing linux installations. Installation works great on "fresh" machines, but would fail on machines with grub/lilo. I don't know if this was related to your "messing up Windows bootloaders" problem, since it wouldn't mess up lilo (linux would still boot just fine), but the FreeDOS install wouldn't work right. Sometimes it hangs at the last few steps, sometimes it gets through the last few steps with a "illegal opcode" message, and sometimes it goes all the way through, but the resulting installation hangs at loading HIMEM, and when "no drivers" is selected, programs like "edit" won't load. The first time, I get an "illegal opcode" message and back to the command prompt, and thereafter, just the command prompt with no message (ignores attempt to run external programs). Hoping Beta9 SR#1 will fix this behaviour, I get the boot and two base disks dated 11/30. Loading on my laptop with a CD drive but no CD in the drive, it gets past the point of loading the CDROM driver, and then it dies saying "cannot find A:\FREEDOS\FDAUTO.BAT" and it becomes clear that it can't access a:, b:, or c:. So I don't think the Install From Floppies option works. It used to do better with the pre-SR#1. David Ormand Tucson, Arizona TMS9900 Lives! ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
